[Tfug] recommendations for installing a cluster..

[JD Rogers]

On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 12:55 PM, Eric Gearhart <eric at nixwizard.net> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 11:49 AM, Eric Gearhart <eric at nixwizard.net> wrote:
>> Just to throw my .02 in Scyld requires RedHat or CentOS... so that
>> might not be an option because you're leaning Debian-based
>
> Sorry for replying to myself but it looks like OSCAR wants a
> RedHat-based distro (Cent, Fedora, RHEL) as well!
>
> http://svn.oscar.openclustergroup.org/trac/oscar/wiki/DistroSupport
>
>
> Hmm... by no means am I a RedHat/CentOS advocate but I wonder if
> you're digging yourself deeper by limiting your distro to a Debian
> based one... of course that's assuming you care about the "prepacked
> cluster" software projects for making node rollout easier... which it
> looks like maybe you don't...

That's a possibility I've asked myself already more than once, but
it's risk I'm willing to take for now. I think what it comes down to,
is that I will be spending a fair amount of time getting things to
work either way, and I'd rather spend that time on a debian based
system for now.